ECODE LAB

The world is filled with ecological communities made up of multiple evolving populations. Controlling the trajectory of evolution in these communities is a general problem that is important in contexts ranging from medicine to machine learning. In the ECODE (Evolutionary Control of Digital Ecologies) lab, we are an interdisciplinary group of researchers coming at this problem from a range of different perspectives. Our core tool is digital evolutionary experiments, but we embrace many other approaches where appropriate, including pure mathematical theory, collaborations with wet lab researchers, and re-analysis of previously published field data. While some of our work is very abstract, we usually try to ground our research in specific communities that we would like to steer the evolution of. That way our findings have immediate relevance to those problems, but also inform our general quest for evolutionary control.